Hrithik Roshan Quotes

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

I know that I'm often perceived as this odd guy who's a bit out there, and I've probably, once in a while, reinforced that image, but I'm really not that person, and, in a way, I want even less so to be seen like that.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

It's strange for my friends when they see me on TV and in magazines, because the person that they see doing interviews and pictures on the red carpet is not the person that they know.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.

A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in 'Easy A', or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.